Firefox new about:addons adds Permissions and Release Notes tabs to extension details page

Firefox’s HTML about:addons in development received quite a good number of improvements recently, for instance, we’ve said about report button addition for extensions and themes and recently, Mozilla added “Release Notes” and “Permissions” tabs to the extension detail page.

Firefox new about addons permissions release notes tabs

At the moment, both about:addons and about:config built on top of HTML are still behind a preference and not shipping with Firefox 67 on May 21, today. Most users did not like new about:config page when Mozilla announced, hope that will not be the case with about:addons on the which currently the company is working on.

HTML about:addons sports card-style design for extensions and offers Disable, Remove, Report, options, and More Options for each extension. When you click on the extension card, details page opens and shows extensive information about the extension. To the latest, Firefox add-ons manager, now shows Permissions and Release notes tabs in details page.

old about addons extension details page

If you use Ublock Origin, you can spot these changes in Firefox 68 Nightly if you have new about:addons enabled, which you can by changing pref extensions.htmlaboutaddons.enabled  value to “true” in about:config.

Venkat Eswarlu

Venkat is an independent technology journalist and the founder of Techdows. He has been covering web browsers, Windows, and software news since 2009. His exclusive scoops on Chrome, Firefox, and Edge features have been cited by Forbes, TechCrunch, Wired, CNET, and other major publications.

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